December 11, 2012: Morning
By The Morning News
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- Cairo prepares for rival rallies ahead of a referendum ordered by President Morsi.
- New Gazan cologne, M-75, named after Hamas' rockets, costs twice as much as other perfumes.
- Genomic study confirms Europe's Roma came from a single group that left India "about 1,500 years ago."
- Iris-scanning ID systems reduce corruption where universal identification systems are lacking.
- Denmark, Finland, and New Zealand ranked the least-corrupt countries; United States places 19th.
- TV show about Danish politics, Borgen, becomes global phenomenon.
- New NBA statistics: The Kobe Pass and the Kobe Assist, i.e., the missed shots that become rebounds.
- Novak Djokovic buys entire 2013 supply of world’s most expensive cheese derived from donkeys.
- Photographs of highlights from the Miami Basel art fair.
- Eighty-one-year-old scientist looks back on testing chemical weapons on hundreds of healthy soldiers.
- British rapper addresses his battle with schizophrenia.
- Floppy disks, reel-to-reel tapes, and other computer icons that mean nothing to young people.
- Koalas are now going through something our ancestors experienced 31 times over the past 60 million years.
- How to make snowman deviled eggs.
- What your Christmas tree says about you.
